Hello,

I have tried searching the web to find a good gold related website for a little bit of advice. I apologise, as I now see that you specialise more in jewlery than with items. Feel free to shoot my question down for this reason. My situation is that I have a very old silver-plated brass Paten that I would like to restore. It is fairly old and the silver plating was very worn. I had decided to strip the remaining plating myself to save money on the replating, but I have noticed now that I have done so that the metal contains very small "pits" (if that's the correct term).

My question is, since the previous silver plating had covered these, will any new coating of silver or gold plating fill these in also?



Any help is much appreciated,

Darran.